This line of storms downed a few trees on the north side of the Atlanta metro area early Friday morning. Embedded rotation within the squall line also prompted tornado warnings in the north metro suburbs and also in parts of North Georgia.

The line stalled out temporarily over parts of Georgia, upstate South Carolina and western North Carolina, prompting flash flooding that washed out at least one road.

There were 10 reports of tornadoes in Mississippi Thursday, with structural damage reported near Clinton, in Harrisville, Morton and near Philadelphia, Mississippi.

Friday

Severe thunderstorms will be most numerous this afternoon and evening in parts of Virginia and the Carolinas. The main severe weather impact in these areas will be destructive straight-line thunderstorm winds, with gusts that may top 70 mph.

There may also be supercell thunderstorms ahead of the main squall line that could spawn tornadoes in that zone from southern Virginia to South Carolina, as well as damaging wind gusts.

The severe weather threat will extend as far north as parts of the mid-Atlantic states and will also sweep through the Florida Peninsula.

This damaging-wind threat may persist into Friday night from New Jersey to the Delmarva Peninsula, North Carolina's Outer Banks and South Florida until it moves offshore by early Saturday morning.

Friday's Severe Weather Forecast

Heavy Rain/Flash Flood Threat

Flood watches have been issued by the National Weather Service from Virginia to Maine.

While the line of strong to severe thunderstorms should advance Friday and Friday night, some locally heavy rain is likely in the East from Florida to the Northeast, potentially triggering flash flooding. A slight risk of excessive rainfall has been issued by NOAA's Weather Prediction Center in an expansive swath of the East Friday, lingering in New England Saturday.

Rain falling on leftover snowpack is a concern in parts of upstate New York and northern New England.

Rainfall Forecast Through Saturday

Severe Weather Recap

Thursday, April 18

The National Weather Service office in Jackson, Mississippi, was forced to briefly take shelter Thursday afternoon as a possible tornado approached the office. Fortunately, it passed just north of the office, and forecasters were quickly able to resume normal operations.

In Clinton, Mississippi, just west of Jackson, the fire department reported that cars were flipped over in a Walmart parking lot from the same possible tornado.

Flooding was reported in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Thursday afternoon after an estimated 2.5 to 3 inches of rain fell in the area. Creeks and streams were out of their banks, and multiple side roads were flooded.

Wednesday, April 17

Roughly a half-dozen tornadoes were sighted from the Texas Panhandle to southern Kansas Wednesday into Wednesday night.

Multiple homes were damaged, including a roof half-removed from one home northwest of Shattuck, Oklahoma. A pair of tornadoes was sighted by broadcast media and another observer at the time.

Tree and roof damage was reported Wednesday evening in Pond Creek, Oklahoma, and a roof was lifted off a home, then set back down in Pawnee, Oklahoma.

Hail as large as teacups, 3 inches in diameter, was reported Wednesday evening in Selman, Oklahoma. Parts of the eastern Texas Panhandle saw hail up to 2 inches in diameter Wednesday afternoon. Quarter-sized hail in Goodnight, Texas, accumulated up to an inch deep, according to the National Weather Service.

Two semi-trailer trucks were blown over on Interstate 35 in north-central Oklahoma near the Kansas border. A nearby Oklahoma Mesonet weather station at Newkirk recorded wind gusts to 66 mph.

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